{"id":40,"date":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/part\/summary\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","slug":"summary","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/part\/summary\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 4: Summary","rendered":"Chapter 4: Summary"},"content":{"raw":"\n
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Learning Objectives<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n

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  • Identify the main idea and relevant details in summarizing another\u2019s writing.<\/li>\n \t
  • Indicate your own point of view while fairly representing your source\u2019s ideas.<\/li>\n \t
  • Accurately summarize while selecting details relevant to your argument.<\/li>\n \t
  • Write an interesting first sentence of your summary.<\/li>\n \t
  • Make a strong counterargument and refute it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSummary often seems like a low-level skill, hardly worth practising. After all, we\u2019ve been doing it our whole lives. \u201cThat book looks interesting. What\u2019s it about?\u201d Simply answering such a question, however casually, requires us to accurately summarize the plot, characters, and narrative in a sentence or two so our questioner gets a sense of the book\u2019s flavour.\n\nSummary, however, is also the underpinning of academic writing. That\u2019s because, before you can engage with the work of others\u2014the knowledge that came before\u2014you have to represent it to your reader, who likely hasn\u2019t done the research you have and is thus relying on you to bring them up to speed.\n","rendered":"
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    Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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    • Identify the main idea and relevant details in summarizing another\u2019s writing.<\/li>\n
    • Indicate your own point of view while fairly representing your source\u2019s ideas.<\/li>\n
    • Accurately summarize while selecting details relevant to your argument.<\/li>\n
    • Write an interesting first sentence of your summary.<\/li>\n
    • Make a strong counterargument and refute it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      Summary often seems like a low-level skill, hardly worth practising. After all, we\u2019ve been doing it our whole lives. \u201cThat book looks interesting. What\u2019s it about?\u201d Simply answering such a question, however casually, requires us to accurately summarize the plot, characters, and narrative in a sentence or two so our questioner gets a sense of the book\u2019s flavour.<\/p>\n

      Summary, however, is also the underpinning of academic writing. That\u2019s because, before you can engage with the work of others\u2014the knowledge that came before\u2014you have to represent it to your reader, who likely hasn\u2019t done the research you have and is thus relying on you to bring them up to speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-40","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}